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Voir dire is short and precise and intelligible; in my opinion, this distinction can be claimed by many other terms of art, including tort, fee simple, easement, mens rea , and prima facie case.
The "dire consequences" spoken of earlier amount to the following: a brusquely worded note, a rude stare from a stranger, and the apparent confiscation of Harford's carnival mask, which results in a $25 replacement fee.
"Ulster talks in dire trouble" was the Guardian 's front-page headline.
Mortgage-sized tuition debts, warned the report, have dire consequences for the future of poverty law agencies and legal departments in state and federal government.
And my new hero, Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin, said in Sunday's Boston Globe , "If there's one thing this whole thing points out, it's that there is a dire need for regulators to clearly identify this [day trading] as a problem."